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Google Launches Google Video For Business
The company is using its Google Apps business to provide the infrastructure necessary to search videos, restrict access to them, rate them, comment on them, and download them.
Microsoft To Acquire Ciao Shopping Portals For $486 Million
Ciao operates in seven European languages and countries, and recently launched a beta site aimed at the U.S. market.
Electric Cars: Inside Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster
Check out our image gallery with pictures of GM's upcoming Chevy Volt hybrid, and Tesla Motors' groundbreaking all-electric Roadster.
Smartphone Apps For The Rest Of Us
Even if you use Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon -- or don't have an iPhone for your AT&T connection -- you can still get games, music, location-based services, and other mobile content on your phone. Here's how.
No Blueprint Yet For Private Clouds
Many people don't like the concept of "private clouds," including my colleague John Foley and Sam Johnston ("The case against 'private clouds' "), since by definition cloud computing involves letting people plug into shared IT services in data centers that aren't their own. As oxymorons go, though, private cloud computing doesn't st
Cisco To Buy PostPath For $215 Million
Privately-held PostPath, which develops and provides e-mail and calendaring software, will enhance Cisco's WebEx product line, the company said.
Micosoft's SQL Strategy For Massive Data Sets
Cloud computing service providers like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo are all hard at work on a new generation of parallel data processing tools that will make it easier for each company to store and analyze enormous data sets such as search logs and click streams.
Dell Explains Cloud-Computing Trademark Attempt
The computer maker can appeal the Patent Office's rejection of its trademark application for the commonly used term.
6 Video Cameras For YouTubers
We look at compact digital video cameras that make shooting and uploading video clips to YouTube a snap: The Flip Mino, Creative's Vado, RCA's Small Wonder Traveler, DXG's 567VTo, Kodak's Zi6 and JVC's GZ-MS100U.
Nokia Rolls Out Pair Of N Series Smartphones
The Nokia N85 and N79 pack integrated Wi-Fi, 3G capabilities, built-in GPS, and robust multimedia functionality over a Symbian operating system.
Q & A: Futurist Ray Kurzweil
We caught up with the visionary inventor at SpeechTek 2008, where he talked with InformationWeek about speech technology, his new cellphone reading machine, and two new movie projects.
Apple MobileMe Reportedly Vulnerable To Data Loss
Sniffing public file sharing folders is the latest in a string of problems that has plagued the service, which replaced Apple's .Mac service.
Solar-Powered Nanotech-Purified Air In Medieval Churches
Tiny gold particles found in medieval gold paint reacted with sunlight to destroy air-borne pollutants, one researcher found.
Salesforce.com Gets Sharp Rise In 2Q Net Income
Most of Salesforce.com's customers continue to come from the Americas, which represented 72% of its customer base.
SaaS Company Replaces Microsoft SQL Server With Oracle
Oracle, which has been relatively quiet about cloud computing, is touting a deal to support CaseCentral's software-as-a-service business.
IBM Invests $300 Million In Backup Centers
Big Blue aims to keep its customers safe by employing cloud computing standards.
CIOs On Cloud Computing
The recent rash of outages at Amazon, Citrix, and Google were a warning sign to CIOs contemplating the move to cloud computing, but service availability is just one of the things to worry about. Privacy, data security, and vendor lock-in are on their watch list, too.
HP Sees Blades, Notebook PCs Sell Fast In 3Q
Another hot product area for HP is its enterprise servers and storage unit, which saw revenue rise 5% to $4.7 billion.
MobileMe Users Get 60 Free Days
The latest freebie comes in addition to a previous free 30 days of service Apple doled out to subscribers.
Dell Ponders Rejection Of 'Cloud Computing' Trademark
The examining attorney for the Patent Office made an initial refusal of Dell's request, saying the term was too generic to be acceptable as a trademark.
Microsoft Windows To Support Blu-ray HD Content
In the HD wars, Microsoft initially placed itself in the HD DVD camp by introducing an external disc player for its Xbox 360 console capable of playing the Toshiba format.
Unisys To Manage Republican National Convention IT Services
The company will oversee computer operations for the political convention, which is expected to draw 45,000 delegates, volunteers, news reporters, and other guests.
Getting Fit Online: Your Guide To Web Workouts
Has watching nonstop Olympics coverage left you flabby, but eager to get fit? A variety of online workout sites, gaming systems like Nintendo's Wii Fitness -- even Apple's iPhone -- can motivate and whip you into shape.
Video-Game Industry Sales Slow In July
Still, the industry as a whole is on track to achieve record-breaking revenues of more than $22 billion for the year, according to analyst researchers with NPD.
Outages Force Cloud Computing Users To Rethink Tactics
IT departments scramble to devise backup plans following service disruptions at Amazon, Citrix, and Google.
Intel Unveils Smaller Solid-State Drive For Mini-Notebooks
The mini-notebook market is expected to show strong growth over the next few years with worldwide shipments on pace to reach 5.2 million units this year.
MIT Develops Realistic 6-D Imaging System
The images, which have a full 3-D appearance, also react to their surrounding environments and can produce shadows and highlights.
As Google Goes Down, Private Clouds Go Up
I've already made the point that there's no such thing as "private clouds." It's an oxymoron because cloud computing, by definition, happens when people plug into IT services offered from data centers that aren't their own and that are shared by others. That said, cloud architectures will indeed be popular in corporate data centers, even if we disagree on what you call them.
IBM Plans Virtual Green Data Center In Second Life
IBM plans a rich-media Webcast on Friday to promote the center, which sits behind a private firewall in IBM's "green spot" in Second Life.
Oops, Gmail And Google Apps Did It Again (Malfunctioned)
Reinforcing the notion that August 2008 may be the month that the cloud went down, GMail (which had problems just last week) is apparently having problems again. Upon my attempt to send an email, the Gmail part of Google Apps responded with "Oops.... the system encountered a problem (#796)." Then, in the below sc
OK, I Take It Back. Maybe It's The Month The Cloud Went Down
OK, my apologies. Last week, between parts of Google's Gmail and Google Apps services going down and Citrix's GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar experiencing failures as well, I wondered whether it was the week that the cloud went down. Apparently, the cloud is still sputtering this week, this time with the lights going out at LinkedIn.
Star Trek Online Game Footage Unveiled
The footage, introduced at a Star Trek convention by actor Leonard Nimoy, showed Federation Starships battling Borg vessels and other hostile races.
The Week The Cloud Went Down? First GMail, Then Citrix's GoToMeeting
The upside of being the 800-pound gorilla of cloud computing (Google) is that every time cloud computing gets good press, you get mentioned and you get a tad more traction and credit for being one of the "cloud computers." The downside is that when part of your cloud computer goes down like a part of Gmail and Google Apps did on Wednesday of this week (Aug. 6), everyone is quick to pile on. But Google wa
Private Clouds Take Shape
Corporate data centers take a best-of-both-worlds approach, adopting technologies and practices of public cloud infrastructures from the likes of Amazon.com and Google.
AT&T Uses Its Hosting Experience To Reassure Customers That Cloud Computing Is Safe
Vendor aims its managed computing, networking, security, and storage service at big organizations -- including the Olympics.
Warily, Small Businesses Look To Cloud Computing
MyBizHomepage has introduced an online platform for small companies' financial records, aimed at small-business owners who need fast and easily understood insight into key accounting data.
Citrix Calls On Microsoft To Set Windows Free
The Xen hypervisor distributor wants Windows to be sold as part of a virtual environment application package that could run on any hypervisor, on any machine.
Cloud Computing And The Data Center Of The Future
"Cloud computing is the evolution and convergence of many seemingly independent computing trends," Sam Charrington, VP of product management and marketing at Appistry, told a standing-room only LinuxWorld Expo session today. A laundry list of these trends includes commoditization, Internet delivery, virtualization, grid computing, SOA, data center automation, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, DaaS, utility computing, distributed computing, Web 2.0, IT outsourcing, and storage.
Virtualization, SOA, And Cloud Computing At 2008 LinuxWorld Expo
Virtualization was the first topic of the morning on Tuesday at the Executive Summit, an exclusive one-day conference for senior IT professionals at the 2008 LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco.
Oracle Unveils Virtual Machine Templates, Plans For New Data Center
The VM Templates introduced at LinuxWorld are a fully configured software stack ready for production deployments on Oracle's VMs.
Inside Two Electric Cars
GM's Chevy Volt is a plug-in hybrid concept car. Tesla Motors' Roadster is an all-electric vehicle in production. We peek under the hoods of both.
Remote DVR Technology Does Not Violate Copyright Laws, Says Court
The appeals court overturned a prior ruling that Cablevision's storage of TV shows on a centralized server constituted copyright infringement.
AT&T Jumps Into Cloud Computing With Synaptic Hosting
Synaptic Hosting will allow companies to host Windows Server or Linux client-server applications and Web apps in AT&T's data centers, rather than in their own data centers.
Amazon Invests In Cloud Specialist Elastra
Elastra, a fast-moving startup I've written about twice in recent weeks, has just closed $12 million in Series B funding from investors including Amazon.com. Elastra's Cloud Server can be used to develop and manage applications in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. The company is developing a version of its software for VMware-based "private clouds" in corporate data centers.
Why Google And Microsoft Are Building Data Centers In Iowa
In deciding to locate new data centers in Iowa, Google and Microsoft are benefiting from incentives offered for years to manufacturing companies like John Deere, which has 10 manufacturing plants in the state. It turns out that, in addition to plentiful land and affordable electricity, the Hawkeye state gives hefty tax breaks.
Intel Releases Details Of Upcoming Graphics Chip
The first Larrabee chips will be add-on graphics accelerators in PCs used mostly by gamers.
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